The idealisation of womanhood, worldwide, is far from the reality of their lives. In many places, women are expected to put the well-being of others in the family before themselves, and patriarchal values deny them control over their education and reproduction. The director proposes that a key issue should be to address structural barriers to […]
Mawbe, a disabled mechanic in a wheelchair, teaches the trade to his four young mechanic apprentices, and they form a close bond. One day, an accident to Mawbe challenges them to find extra solidarity and ingenuity to help him. […]
A teacher in the mountains tries to show his children the meaning of democracy in class, while a supposedly democratic election campaign is simultaneously taking place in a nearby village. […]
A short documentary showing the beautiful mountain wilderness of St Catherine in the Sinai desert, a holy place which has always been on the path of the prophets as they crossed between Israel and Egypt, and now a centre of herb and plant research as well as a sanctuary. […]
Ousmane Sembene Short Film Award, 2021; Los Angeles Cinematography Award 2020; Nomination: Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diaspora Documentary This short film explores the origins of a mysterious Kenyan object that has been found in the archives of a German museum. The only information about it is that it entered the museum in 1903; […]
Best documentary, 7th Rustenburg FF; Calgary Black FF; Halifax Black FF In 1988, Dulcie September, a member of the ANC living in Paris, was assassinated as she entered an elevator at her apartment building. The murderer was never found and the crime never investigated properly. Now, in 2021 director Enver Samuel has made a powerful […]
Special Jury Recognition, and honours for 10 episodes at Jackson Wild Media Festival, USA We have selected three documentaries together from a unique and inspiring wildlife documentary series, Wildlife Warriors, made for Kenyan TV by a Kenyan film crew and local conservationists, and hosted by award-winning conservationist Paula Kahumbu. Each episode in the series showcases […]
Nominee for Golden Eye, Cannes Houlaye is a 12-year-old girl who lives in the small semi-nomadic settlement of Tatis in Niger, in the region of the Sahel, an arid belt of land running between the Sahara and the tropical zone whose population and livestock is increasingly threatened by climate change and water crisis. Every day […]
Traditional storyteller and filmmaker Valerio Lopes, from Cape Verde, has created this highly original, a futuristic documentary on African history, science, and technology. Using both traditional story-telling in its role as a carrier of culture, tradition, and belief, computer graphics, and the results of his own research from the 16 African countries he has visited, […]
Premiered at Berlin IFF Akuol is the daughter of Rebecca de Mabior, and both are subjects of this very personal film about the family’s connections with the formation of South Sudan and her mother’s continuing vital role in its leadership. Akuol was 16 when her father, leader of the South Sudanese Liberation Movement, was killed […]
An insightful study of over 40 years of an interracial marriage between a Ghanaian and a German offers many different views on the politics of African-European marital relationships. The couple’s children recount the history of their marriage from when they first met in England post-WW2, to their later years and the legacy they left their […]
Transilvania FF 2017, Zurich FF 2017, Shanghai IFF 2018, critic’s pick for NY Times Wilson is a middle-aged African refugee who has been in Hungary for years and is trying to get his citizenship papers in the hope of a new life in his adoptive country. However, he keeps failing the citizenship exams. He works […]
